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Symbol: 264–1078, 264–1084, 264–1085,
264–1090, 264–1091, and 264–RRAT.
Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–
0662. Applicant: Bayer CropScience
LLC, P.O. Box 12014, 2 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Active ingredient: Fluopyram. Product
type: Fungicide. Proposed uses: Soybean,
seed; cotton, seed; cotton, gin
byproducts; peanut; grains, cereal,
except rice, Group 15; grains, cereal,
forage, Group 16; and grain, cereal,
fodder, hay, and straw, Group 16. (RD)
2. EPA Registration Number/EPA File
Symbol: 264–1049 and 432–RLGN.
Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–
0100. Applicant: Bayer CropScience
LLC, P.O. Box 12014, 2 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Active ingredient: Spirotetramat. Product
type: Insecticide. Proposed uses: Lawn
and turfgrass, including sod farms. (RD)
3. EPA File Symbol: 432–RLGU. Docket ID
number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0208.
Applicant: Bayer CropScience LLC, P.O.
Box 12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Active ingredient: Deltamethrin. Product
type: Insecticide. Proposed use: Wide
area mosquito adulticide. (RD)
4. EPA Registration Numbers: 7969–275 and
7969–0276. Docket ID number: EPA–
HQ–OPP–2014–0124. Applicant: BASF
Corporation, P.O. Box 13528, 26 Davis
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC
27709–3528. Active ingredient:
Saflufenacil. Product type: Herbicide.
Proposed uses: Broadleaf weed control
around olive trees. (RD)
5. EPA Registration Number: 10163–6414.
Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–
0644. Applicant: Gowan, P.O. Box 5569,
Yuma, AZ 85366–5569. Active
ingredient: Zoxamide. Product type:
Fungicide. Proposed uses: Onion, bulb,
subgroup 3–07. (RD)
6. EPA Registration Numbers: 59639–139 and
59639–140. Docket ID number: EPA–
HQ–OPP–2014–0116. Applicant: Valent
U.S.A. Corporation, 1600 Riviera Ave.,
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Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.
Active ingredient: Fluopicolide. Product
type: Fungicide. Proposed use: Tobacco.
(RD)
7. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719–266,
62719–497, and 62719–621. Docket ID
number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0727.
Applicant: Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330
Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268.
Active ingredient: Spinosad. Product
type: Insecticide. Proposed use: Coffee,
berry subgroups 13–07F and G, green
onion subgroup 3–07B, and cottonseed
subgroup 20C. (RD)
8. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719–539,
62719–541, and 62719–545. Docket ID
number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0730.
Applicant: Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330
Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268.
Active ingredient: Spinetoram. Product
type: Insecticide. Proposed use: Coffee,
berry subgroups 13–07F and G; green
onion, subgroup 3–07B; and cottonseed,
subgroup 20C. (RD)
9. EPA Registration Number: 65217–1.
Docket ID Number: EPA–HQ–OPP–
2014–0146. Applicant: Hammonds Fuel
Additives, Inc., c/o Delta Analytical
Corp., 12510 Prosperity Drive, Suite 160,
Silver Spring, MD 20904. Active
ingredient: 2,2’-(1methyltrimethylenedioxy)bis(4-methyl1,3,2-dioxaborinane). Product type:
Microbicide/microbistat. Proposed uses:
New use intended to control microbial
growth in all hydraulic fluids, lubricants,
transmission fluids, and anti-freeze. (AD)
10. EPA Registration Symbols: 71512–EL and
71512–EU. Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–
OPP–2014–0153. Applicant: ISK
Biosciences Corporation, 7470 Auburn
Road, Suite A, Concord, OH 44077.
Active ingredient: Pyriofenone. Product
type: Fungicide. Proposed uses: For use
on Cucurbit, Crop Group 9; and berry
and small fruit, Crop Group 13–07,
except large shrub/tree berry, crop
subgroup 13–07C. (RD)
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides
and pests.
Dated: March 13, 2014.
Lois Rossi,
Director, Registration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9908–84–OA]
Request for Nominations for the Clean
Air Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC) Review Panel for Oxides of
Nitrogen and Sulfur
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA or Agency)
Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff
Office is seeking nominations of
nationally recognized experts for
consideration for membership on a new
Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC) Review Panel on
scientific assessments to support EPA’s
decisions on secondary (welfare-based)
air quality standards for oxides of
nitrogen (NOX) and oxides of sulfur
(SOX).
SUMMARY:
New nominations should be
submitted by April 17, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Request for
Nominations may contact Dr. Holly
Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board
(1400R), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20460; via
telephone/voice mail: (202) 564–2073 or
email at stallworth.holly@epa.gov.
General information concerning the
CASAC can be found on the EPA Web
site at: https://www.epa.gov/casac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
CASAC was established pursuant to the
Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of
1977, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409(d)(2), to
review air quality criteria and NAAQS
and recommend any new NAAQS and
revisions of existing criteria and
NAAQS as may be appropriate. The
CASAC shall also provide advice,
information, and recommendations to
the Administrator on the scientific and
technical aspects of issues related to the
criteria for air quality standards,
research related to air quality, sources of
air pollution, and of adverse effects
which may result from various strategies
to attain and maintain air quality
standards. The CASAC is a Federal
Advisory Committee chartered under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. Section
109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the
Agency periodically review and revise,
as appropriate, the air quality criteria
and the NAAQS for the six ‘‘criteria’’ air
pollutants, including NOX and SOX.
EPA is currently preparing to review the
secondary (welfare-based) air quality
criteria for NOX and SOX.
The SAB Staff Office is establishing a
panel of experts to augment the
chartered CASAC to provide EPA advice
on its scientific assessments on this
topic. The CASAC and the CASAC NOX
and SOX Secondary Review Panel will
comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate EPA and SAB Staff
Office procedural policies.
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This Federal Register notice seeks
nominations of nationally-recognized
experts regarding NOX and SOX in one
or more of the following disciplines. (a)
Ecological Effects. Expertise in
evaluation of the effects of exposure to
gas-phase oxides of nitrogen and sulfur,
nitrogen deposition and acidification
caused by deposition of nitrogen and
sulfur, on agricultural crops and natural
ecosystems and their components, both
flora and fauna, ranging from
biochemical/sub-cellular effects on
organisms to increasingly more complex
levels of ecosystem organization and
biodiversity. Appropriate expertise
disciplines include: aquatic chemistry;
aquatic ecology/biology; limnology;
terrestrial ecology; forest ecology;
grassland ecology; rangeland ecology;
terrestrial/aquatic biogeochemistry;
marine and estuarine ecology; landscape
ecology; terrestrial/aquatic nutrient
cycling; and terrestrial/aquatic wildlife
biology and soil chemistry. (b) Other
Welfare Effects. Expertise in the
evaluation of the effects of oxides of
nitrogen and sulfur and acid deposition
on public welfare including damage to
materials, and the interactions of these
pollutants to affect global climate
conditions. (c) Ecosystem Exposure and
Risk Assessment/Modeling. Expertise in
terrestrial and aquatic or
biogeochemical modeling across a range
of scales from local watershed to
landscape to continental, static and
dynamic ecosystem response models,
integrated assessment models,
identification of bio-indicators useful
for tracking ecosystem change, methods
and approaches available to estimate
total loadings of sulfur and nitrogen
species to ecosystems, and the current
state of critical loads science and
application. Expertise in modeling
sensitivity of ecosystems to climate
change as it relates to effects from
nitrogen and sulfur oxides exposure. (d)
Ecosystem services and resource
valuation. Expertise in connecting
ecological effects to incremental
changes in provision of various final
ecosystem services, both aquatic and
terrestrial and subsequent incremental
changes in the value of those services
monetary or nonmonetary. (e)
Atmospheric Science. Expertise in
physical and chemical properties of
oxides of nitrogen, reduced and organic
forms of nitrogen, and oxides of sulfur;
atmospheric processes involved in their
formation and transport on urban to
global scales; transformation of these
pollutants in the atmosphere; and
movement of the pollutants between
media through deposition and other
such mechanisms. Also, expertise in the
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evaluation of natural and anthropogenic
sources and emissions of oxides of
nitrogen and sulfur; pertinent
monitoring or measurement methods for
the atmospheric concentration and
deposition of these pollutants; and
spatial and temporal trends in their
atmospheric concentrations and
deposition.
Process and Deadline for Submitting
Nominations: Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified
individuals for consideration of
membership on the CASAC Oxides of
Nitrogen and Sulfur Secondary Review
Panel in the areas of expertise described
above. Nominations should be
submitted in electronic format through
the EPA Web site: https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
Web/participatepanelformation?Open
Document. To receive full
consideration, nominations should
include all of the information requested
below.
EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests
contact information about the person
making the nomination; contact
information about the nominee; the
disciplinary and specific areas of
expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s
resume or curriculum vitae; sources of
recent grant and/or contract support;
and a biographical sketch of the
nominee indicating current position,
educational background, research
activities, and recent service on other
national advisory committees or
national professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are
unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Dr.
Stallworth as noted above. Nominations
should be submitted in time to arrive no
later than April 17, 2014. EPA values
and welcomes diversity. In an effort to
obtain nominations of diverse
candidates, EPA encourages
nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will
acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and biosketches of qualified
nominees identified by respondents to
this Federal Register notice, and
additional experts identified by the SAB
Staff will be posted in a List of
Candidates for the NOX and SOX
Secondary Review Panel on the SAB
Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstractivites/
NOx%20SOx%20Secondary%20
NAAQS%20Review?OpenDocument.
Public comments on the List of
Candidates will be accepted for 21 days.
The public will be requested to provide
relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the
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SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a
balanced subcommittee or review panel
includes candidates who possess the
necessary domains of knowledge, the
relevant scientific perspectives (which,
among other factors, can be influenced
by work history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff
Office will consider public comments
on the List of Candidates, information
provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used
for panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary
factors); (b) availability and willingness
to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e)
skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels;
and, (f) for the panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and scientific
points of view.
The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of
an absence of financial conflicts of
interest will include a review of the
‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure
Form for Special Government
Employees Serving on Federal Advisory
Committees at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110–
48). This confidential form allows
government officials to determine
whether there is a statutory conflict
between a person’s public
responsibilities (which include
membership on an EPA federal advisory
committee) and private interests and
activities, or the appearance of a loss of
impartiality, as defined by federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and
downloaded from the following Web
address https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sab
product.nsf/Web/ethics?Open
Document. The EPA provides
information about ethics for advisory
members at the following Web address:
https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?Open
Document.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees
and review panels is described in the
following document: Overview of the
Panel Formation Process at the
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–
02–010), which is posted on the SAB
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/
ec02010.pdf.
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Dated: March 18, 2014.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9908-84-OA]
Request for Nominations for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC) Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency)
Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is seeking nominations of
nationally recognized experts for consideration for membership on a new
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Review Panel on
scientific assessments to support EPA's decisions on secondary
(welfare-based) air quality standards for oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) and oxides of sulfur (SOX).
DATES: New nominations should be submitted by April 17, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Request for Nominations may contact
Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400R), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice
mail: (202) 564-2073 or email at stallworth.holly@epa.gov. General
information concerning the CASAC can be found on the EPA Web site at:
https://www.epa.gov/casac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CASAC was established pursuant to the
Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1977, codified at 42 U.S.C.
7409(d)(2), to review air quality criteria and NAAQS and recommend any
new NAAQS and revisions of existing criteria and NAAQS as may be
appropriate. The CASAC shall also provide advice, information, and
recommendations to the Administrator on the scientific and technical
aspects of issues related to the criteria for air quality standards,
research related to air quality, sources of air pollution, and of
adverse effects which may result from various strategies to attain and
maintain air quality standards. The CASAC is a Federal Advisory
Committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5
U.S.C., App. 2. Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the Agency
periodically review and revise, as appropriate, the air quality
criteria and the NAAQS for the six ``criteria'' air pollutants,
including NOX and SOX. EPA is currently preparing
to review the secondary (welfare-based) air quality criteria for
NOX and SOX.
The SAB Staff Office is establishing a panel of experts to augment
the chartered CASAC to provide EPA advice on its scientific assessments
on this topic. The CASAC and the CASAC NOX and
SOX Secondary Review Panel will comply with the provisions
of FACA and all appropriate EPA and SAB Staff Office procedural
policies.
This Federal Register notice seeks nominations of nationally-
recognized experts regarding NOX and SOX in one
or more of the following disciplines. (a) Ecological Effects. Expertise
in evaluation of the effects of exposure to gas-phase oxides of
nitrogen and sulfur, nitrogen deposition and acidification caused by
deposition of nitrogen and sulfur, on agricultural crops and natural
ecosystems and their components, both flora and fauna, ranging from
biochemical/sub-cellular effects on organisms to increasingly more
complex levels of ecosystem organization and biodiversity. Appropriate
expertise disciplines include: aquatic chemistry; aquatic ecology/
biology; limnology; terrestrial ecology; forest ecology; grassland
ecology; rangeland ecology; terrestrial/aquatic biogeochemistry; marine
and estuarine ecology; landscape ecology; terrestrial/aquatic nutrient
cycling; and terrestrial/aquatic wildlife biology and soil chemistry.
(b) Other Welfare Effects. Expertise in the evaluation of the effects
of oxides of nitrogen and sulfur and acid deposition on public welfare
including damage to materials, and the interactions of these pollutants
to affect global climate conditions. (c) Ecosystem Exposure and Risk
Assessment/Modeling. Expertise in terrestrial and aquatic or
biogeochemical modeling across a range of scales from local watershed
to landscape to continental, static and dynamic ecosystem response
models, integrated assessment models, identification of bio-indicators
useful for tracking ecosystem change, methods and approaches available
to estimate total loadings of sulfur and nitrogen species to
ecosystems, and the current state of critical loads science and
application. Expertise in modeling sensitivity of ecosystems to climate
change as it relates to effects from nitrogen and sulfur oxides
exposure. (d) Ecosystem services and resource valuation. Expertise in
connecting ecological effects to incremental changes in provision of
various final ecosystem services, both aquatic and terrestrial and
subsequent incremental changes in the value of those services monetary
or nonmonetary. (e) Atmospheric Science. Expertise in physical and
chemical properties of oxides of nitrogen, reduced and organic forms of
nitrogen, and oxides of sulfur; atmospheric processes involved in their
formation and transport on urban to global scales; transformation of
these pollutants in the atmosphere; and movement of the pollutants
between media through deposition and other such mechanisms. Also,
expertise in the evaluation of natural and anthropogenic sources and
emissions of oxides of nitrogen and sulfur; pertinent monitoring or
measurement methods for the atmospheric concentration and deposition of
these pollutants; and spatial and temporal trends in their atmospheric
concentrations and deposition.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested
person or organization may nominate qualified individuals for
consideration of membership on the CASAC Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur
Secondary Review Panel in the areas of expertise described above.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic format through the EPA
Web site: https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/participatepanelformation?OpenDocument. To receive full consideration,
nominations should include all of the information requested below.
EPA's SAB Staff Office requests contact information about the
person making the nomination; contact information about the nominee;
the disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the
nominee's resume or curriculum vitae; sources of recent grant and/or
contract support; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating
current position, educational background, research activities, and
recent service on other national advisory committees or national
professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the nomination procedures, or who
are unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web site, should
contact Dr. Stallworth as noted above. Nominations should be submitted
in time to arrive no later than April 17, 2014. EPA values and welcomes
diversity. In an effort to obtain nominations of diverse candidates,
EPA encourages nominations of women and men of all racial and ethnic
groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and biosketches of qualified nominees identified by
respondents to this Federal Register notice, and additional experts
identified by the SAB Staff will be posted in a List of Candidates for
the NOX and SOX Secondary Review Panel on the SAB
Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstractivites/NOx%20SOx%20Secondary%20NAAQS%20Review?OpenDocument.
Public comments on the List of Candidates will be accepted for 21 days.
The public will be requested to provide relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the
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SAB Staff Office should consider in evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a balanced subcommittee or review
panel includes candidates who possess the necessary domains of
knowledge, the relevant scientific perspectives (which, among other
factors, can be influenced by work history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to adequately address the charge. In
forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff Office will consider public
comments on the List of Candidates, information provided by the
candidates themselves, and background information independently
gathered by the SAB Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used for
panel membership include: (a) Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary factors); (b) availability and
willingness to serve; (c) absence of financial conflicts of interest;
(d) absence of an appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e) skills
working in committees, subcommittees and advisory panels; and, (f) for
the panel as a whole, diversity of expertise and scientific points of
view.
The SAB Staff Office's evaluation of an absence of financial
conflicts of interest will include a review of the ``Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on
Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This confidential form allows government
officials to determine whether there is a statutory conflict between a
person's public responsibilities (which include membership on an EPA
federal advisory committee) and private interests and activities, or
the appearance of a loss of impartiality, as defined by federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the following
Web address https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?OpenDocument. The EPA provides information about ethics for
advisory members at the following Web address: https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?OpenDocument.
The approved policy under which the EPA SAB Office selects
subcommittees and review panels is described in the following document:
Overview of the Panel Formation Process at the Environmental Protection
Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA-SAB-EC-02-010), which is posted on
the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf.
Dated: March 18, 2014.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 2014-06830 Filed 3-26-14; 8:45 am]
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